2013年2月13日星期三

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Ovation for Pope Benedict at final public mass

Posted: 13 Feb 2013 11:18 AM PST

Pope Benedict XVI attends Ash Wednesday mass at the VaticanVATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A capacity crowd in St Peter's Basilica gave Pope Benedict a thunderous standing ovation on Wednesday at an emotional last public Mass before he resigns at the end of the month. "Thank you. Now, let's return to prayer," the 85-year-old pontiff said, bringing an end to several minutes of applause that clearly moved him. In an unusual gesture, bishops took off their mitres in a sign of respect and a few of them wept. One of the priests at the altar, which according to tradition rests above the tomb of St Peter, took out a handkerchief to dry his tears. ...


Syrian troops bombard rebel posts around capital

Posted: 13 Feb 2013 12:19 PM PST

Free Syrian Army fighter aims his weapon to target a regime helicopter in AleppoAMMAN (Reuters) - President Bashar al-Assad's forces bombarded the southeast of Damascus with air strikes and artillery on Wednesday to try and dislodge rebel fighters who have gained a foothold in the Syrian capital, opposition activists said. A Middle East diplomat following the military situation described battles in and around Damascus as a "major engagement", with fighting going back and forth between the two sides. "The opposition is hitting Damascus from a multiple of directions and the regime is trying to stop it," he said. ...


Iran suggests progress, but no deal, in U.N. atom talks

Posted: 13 Feb 2013 12:16 PM PST

Iran's International Atomic Energy Agency ambassador Ali Asghar Soltanieh briefs the media after a meeting at the Iranian embassy in ViennaDUBAI (Reuters) - Iran indicated that some progress was made in talks with the U.N. nuclear watchdog on Wednesday, but that the two sides again failed to finalize an elusive framework deal over the Islamic state's disputed atomic activity. Iran's ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Ali Asghar Soltanieh, said a new meeting would be held, without giving a date. There was no immediate comment from the IAEA about the one-day meeting in Tehran. The IAEA had hoped to bridge persistent differences with Iran preventing the U.N. ...


Britain says intelligence sharing crucial despite abuse risks

Posted: 13 Feb 2013 04:14 PM PST

Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague leaves Downing Street in central LondonLONDON (Reuters) - Britain is justified in sharing intelligence with countries suspected of human rights abuses to protect itself, Foreign Secretary William Hague will say on Thursday, despite concerns over the torture of suspects and costly court cases. Since the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, Britain has been wrestling with how to uphold its opposition to all forms of torture whilst ensuring it could gather information about planned attacks by militants, some of which might have been obtained through ill-treatment of suspects. ...


Chavez undergoing "delicate" cancer treatment: Venezuela's vice president

Posted: 13 Feb 2013 04:03 PM PST

Venezuelan Vice President Nicolas Maduro and National Assembly President Diosdado Cabello stand next to a painting of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez as they attend the commemoration of the 21st anniversary of Chavez's attempted cuop d'etat in CaracasCARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is undergoing "complex" alternative treatments more than two months after having cancer surgery in Cuba, his vice president said on Wednesday. The 58-year-old socialist leader has not been seen in public since he went to Havana for the operation on December 11, his fourth surgery for cancer in 18 months. Vice President Nicolas Maduro did not give details of the alternative treatments the president was receiving. ...


Frustrated Turkey still wants EU entry, but maybe not euro

Posted: 13 Feb 2013 11:14 AM PST

Turkey's EU Affairs Minister Bagis talks during an interview with Reuters in IstanbulLONDON (Reuters) - Turkey is committed to joining the European Union despite mounting frustration over decades of talks on the issue, but has little appetite for adopting the euro currency, a senior Turkish official said on Wednesday. In a speech in London, Turkey's chief negotiator on EU accession said it was time the EU made up its mind on whether Turkey can join the 27-member bloc, and said it should be allowed in even if some countries object. ...


Israel publishes some details in Australian spy mystery

Posted: 13 Feb 2013 12:27 PM PST

A view of the exterior of Ayalon prison in Ramle near Tel AvivJERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel broke its official silence on Wednesday over the reported suicide in jail of an Australian immigrant recruited to its spy service Mossad, giving limited details on a closely guarded case. After appeals by local media chafing at Israeli censorship of a story broken by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), a district court near Tel Aviv allowed publication of six paragraphs of sanctioned text - a de-facto preliminary account by the state. ...


Horsemeat scandal set to spur tougher EU food tests

Posted: 13 Feb 2013 02:20 PM PST

500g size boxes of Coop Qualite & Prix Lasagne Verdi Bolognese are seen after purchase from a Coop supermarket in ZurichBRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission has proposed increased DNA testing of meat products to assess the scale of a scandal involving horsemeat sold as beef that has shocked the public and raised concern over the continent's food supply chains. "The tests will be on DNA in meat products in all member states," European Union Health Commissioner Tonio Borg told reporters after a ministerial meeting in Brussels to discuss the affair. ...


Plane crash landing in Ukraine kills at least five: officials

Posted: 13 Feb 2013 12:49 PM PST

Investigators, firefighters and Emergencies Ministry members work near the damaged Antonov 24 turboprop plane near the airport in DonetskKIEV (Reuters) - At least five people were killed when a plane carrying supporters to a European soccer match in eastern Ukraine overshot the runway and broke up when it attempted an emergency landing late on Wednesday, officials said. The twin-engined Antonov turboprop was bringing 45 passengers and crew on a charter flight from the Black Sea coastal city of Odessa to Donetsk - most of them fans looking forward to attending a Champions League clash between the Ukrainian home team Shakhtar and Germany's Borussia Dortmund. ...


Egypt floods Gaza tunnels to cut Palestinian lifeline

Posted: 13 Feb 2013 04:37 AM PST

A Palestinian works at the entrance of a smuggling tunnel dug beneath the Egyptian-Gaza border in the southern Gaza StripGAZA (Reuters) - Egyptian forces have flooded smuggling tunnels under the border with the Palestinian-ruled Gaza Strip in a campaign to shut them down, Egyptian and Palestinian officials said. The network of tunnels is a vital lifeline for Gaza, bringing in an estimated 30 percent of all goods that reach the enclave and circumventing a blockade imposed by Israel for more than seven years. Reuters reporters saw one tunnel being used to bring in cement and gravel suddenly fill with water on Sunday, sending workers rushing for safety. ...


Ukraine: 5 dead in crash-landing

Posted: 13 Feb 2013 04:38 PM PST

In this image taken from TV, emergency vehicles arrive at Donetsk airport, Wednesday Feb. 13, 2013, after a plane crash-landed at the airport. A small passenger plane skidded past the landing strip and overturned in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on Wednesday, killing four people, injuring two and leaving the fate of two others unknown, officials said.(AP Photo/APTN) TV OUTKIEV, Ukraine (AP) — A passenger plane carrying soccer fans headed for a match skidded past the landing strip and overturned in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on Wednesday, killing five people, officials said.


Tears, applause for pope at last public Mass

Posted: 13 Feb 2013 03:33 PM PST

Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone takes off his skull cap after he delivered a speech to Pope Benedict XVI at the end of the Ash Wednesday mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013. Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent, a solemn period of 40 days of prayer and self-denial leading up to Easter. Pope Benedict XVI told thousands of faithful Wednesday that he was resigning for "the good of the church", an extraordinary scene of a pope explaining himself to his flock that unfolded in his first appearance since dropping the bombshell announcement. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)VATICAN CITY (AP) — With a humble "Grazie" as bishops doffed their mitres and applause echoed through St. Peter's Basilica, a frail Pope Benedict XVI began his long farewell by presiding over Ash Wednesday services in a tearful, final public Mass.


Dutch company eyed in mislabeled horsemeat scandal

Posted: 13 Feb 2013 03:04 PM PST

A customer holds a pack of Findus Beef Lasagne Bolognaise in a freezer of a supermarket in Nice, southeastern France, Monday, Feb. 11, 2013. Complex trading between wholesalers has made it increasingly difficult to trace the origins or destination of food like the horsemeat disguised as beef being sold in frozen meals across Europe's open borders, and France's agricultural minister said it was up to regulators to find a way AMSTERDAM (AP) — A Cyprus-registered company called "Draap Trading Ltd." moved to the center of Europe's horsemeat mislabeling scandal Wednesday, as it emerged that a man with the same name as the owner of Draap was convicted of fraud for passing off horsemeat as beef by a Dutch court last year.


Syrian rebels close in on Aleppo airport

Posted: 13 Feb 2013 11:20 AM PST

Citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center AMC which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows smoke rises from Aleppo International Airport, Syria, Tuesday Feb. 12, 2013. Rebels captured a military air base in northern Syria on Tuesday, handing opposition fighters their second strategic victory in their nearly two-year battle against President Bashar Assad in as many days, activists said. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center AMC)BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian rebels knocked down army defenses and moved in on the country's second largest airport Wednesday, reportedly killing more than 40 soldiers and bringing them closer to what could be their biggest conquest since the beginning of the civil war.


Little change in Honduras prison where 362 died

Posted: 13 Feb 2013 05:04 PM PST

In this Jan. 24, 2013 photo, a part of the main patio sits empty inside the prison in Comayagua, Honduras. A year after one of the century's worst prison fires killed more than 350 people, the investigation remains open and prosecutors have filed no charges. The burned cells and electrical system are still being repaired. Even the inmate who was the hero of the fire, finding keys and freeing hundreds of men, was never pardoned as President Porfirio Lobo had promised. (AP Photo/Alberto Arce)JUTICALPA, Honduras (AP) — On the 14th day of each month, Jesus Garcia joins other relatives to hoist a cardboard coffin and carry it in a macabre procession down a road to the prison where two cousins died with 360 other inmates in the worst prison fire in at least a century.


Brazil papal contender: Place of birth irrelevant

Posted: 13 Feb 2013 04:53 PM PST

Cardinal Odilo Pedro Scherer, Sao Paulo's archbishop and papal candidate, greets a woman prior to giving a Mass at the Cathedral in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013. Latin America is home to the world's largest Roman Catholic population, but hopes that the next pope will come from the region appear faint, experts said Monday. Brazilian Cardinals Joao Braz de Aviz, a 65-year-old who has earned praise as head of the Vatican's office for religious congregations, and Odilo Pedro Scherer, the 63-year-old archbishop of Sao Paulo, have been mentioned as possibilities. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)SAO PAULO (AP) — The archbishop of one of the world's largest Roman Catholic archdiocese and a man thought to be a leading Latin American contender to succeed Pope Benedict XVI said Wednesday that neither geographic origin nor age should matter much in determining the next pontiff.


VP: Chavez undergoing 'tough and complex' post-op

Posted: 13 Feb 2013 04:45 PM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 10, 2012 file photo released by Cuba's state newspaper Granma, Cuba's President Raul Castro, right, receives Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez at the Jose Marti International airport in Havana, Cuba. Chavez arrived in Cuba on Dec. 10, 2012 for a fourth cancer-related operation after designating Vice President Nicolas Maduro as his political heir. (AP Photo/Granma, File)CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is undergoing "tough and complex treatments" following cancer-related surgery, his vice president said on Wednesday.


Gitmo official: No eavesdropping on lawyers

Posted: 13 Feb 2013 03:15 PM PST

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) — A senior Guantanamo official says the FBI installed hidden microphones that have sparked fears of eavesdropping among defense attorneys in the Sept. 11 case.

Horsemeat scandal exposes complex food chain

Posted: 13 Feb 2013 12:00 PM PST

Workers handle meat at the Doly-Com abattoir, one of the two units checked by Romanian authorities in the horse meat scandal, in the village of Roma, northern Romania, Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013. On Monday, Romanian officials scrambled to defend two plants implicated in the scandal, saying the meat was properly declared and any fraud was committed elsewhere. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)LONDON (AP) — First, there was "pink slime." Then horsemeat. Most recently? "Desinewed meat."


Egypt's women fighting back against sex assaults

Posted: 13 Feb 2013 12:18 PM PST

FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012 file photo, Egyptian girls chant slogans in Tahrir Square during a rally to mark the one year anniversary of the uprising that ousted President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo, Egypt. Egyptian women are growing increasingly angry and militant as they deal with one of the unintended consequences of the uprising _ an epidemic of sexual assault. The angry backlash, which includes self-defense courses and even threats of violent retaliation, is fueled by ultraconservative Islamists who suggest women invite assault by attending anti-government protests where they mix with men. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian women are growing increasingly angry and militant as they deal with one of the unintended consequences of the Arab Spring: an epidemic of sexual assault that law enforcement has failed to contain.


Matt Damon's humorous video spotlights sanitation crisis

Posted: 13 Feb 2013 12:56 PM PST

If citing troubling statistics won't work, try humor. And social media, of course.

Why the Iran threat assessment may be easing – for now

Posted: 13 Feb 2013 11:45 AM PST

Analysts are toning down threat assessments on Iran as several developments coincide to lower the drumbeat of fears about Iran's nuclear intentions.

A glimpse of Mexico's new crime fighting strategy

Posted: 13 Feb 2013 11:09 AM PST

Mexico's government on Tuesday launched a comprehensive crime prevention plan aimed at strengthening communities hard-hit by the violence of an ongoing drug war.

Is China taking a harsher tone on North Korea?

Posted: 13 Feb 2013 07:48 AM PST

Before North Korea conducted its third nuclear test this week, China made strong efforts to dissuade Pyongyang, saying that if it went ahead with the test, "it must pay a heavy price."

Massive protest movement emerges against Islamists in Bangladesh

Posted: 13 Feb 2013 06:42 AM PST

A protest that has at times swelled into the hundreds of thousands entered its ninth day today in Bangladesh's capital, touched off by the outcome of a war crimes trial that has awoken an astonishing struggle over this country's identity and the role that religion plays in its fractious politics.

Will Iran allow UN nuclear inspection?

Posted: 13 Feb 2013 06:05 AM PST

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